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Human Errors - A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (Paperback)
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Human Errors - A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes (Paperback)
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A biology professor's illuminating tour of the physical
imperfections--from faulty knees to junk DNA--that make us human.
"A funny, fascinating catalog of our collective shortcomings that's
tough to put down."--Discover We humans like to think of ourselves
as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's
greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch
head colds so often--two hundred times more often than a dog does?
How come our wrists have so many useless bones? Why is the vast
majority of our genetic code pointless? And are we really supposed
to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's
been some kind of mistake? As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents
explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is indeed
nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and
enlightening than the last. The human body is one big pile of
compromises. But that is also a testament to our greatness: as
Lents shows, humans have so many design flaws precisely because we
are very, very good at getting around them. A rollicking, deeply
informative tour of humans' four-billion-year-and-counting
evolutionary saga, Human Errors both celebrates our imperfections
and offers an unconventional accounting of the cost of our success.
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